an industrial city in the English Midlands. Many of its buildings were destroyed by bombs in the Second World War, including its cathedral. A new cathedral designed by Basil Spence was built next to the ruins of the old one after the war. 考文垂(英格蘭中部地區的工業城市,包括大教堂在内的許多建築在二戰中被炸毀。戰後,在老教堂的廢墟旁邊修建了一座新的大教堂,由巴茲爾 · 斯彭斯設計)
Idioms
send somebody to Coventry
- (British English)
to refuse to speak to somebody, as a way of punishing them for something that they have done 拒絕與某人交談(作爲懲罰)